Word: steeped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were in Washington," says the University of Chicago's Lorie, "I would ponder the fact that the really steep decline of the stock market started at the time of the Kennedy-Blough battle. I would ponder that, because to a great extent our growth, our prosperity and our hopes of moving the country forward depend on the confidence of businessmen, large and small, and their expectations for the future. If those expectations are damaged, that could be much more serious than the stock market decline...
George Cabot Lodge is the unquestioned favorite for the Republican nomination, but will face a very steep up-hill battle against the Democratic candidate. Unless Kennedy and McCormack badly scar each other at the convention and in the primary, Lodge can expect to remain a former Assistant Secretary of Labor for some time to come...
Last week Kennedy did more warding off by proclaiming steep increases in tariffs on some kinds of carpets and glass. The increases had been recommended by the Tariff Commission, but the President was under no legal obligation to put them into effect. By doing so, he stirred predictable resentment in Europe and Japan, and cast doubt upon the sincerity of his own trade bill-but he also helped to win the votes of Congressmen with carpet or glassmaking plants in their districts...
With hard work, low wages and a predilection for free enterprise. Hong Kong has done very well lately. Light industries have blossomed on its steep hills, and exports have risen 76% since 1954 to $745 million-much of it in textiles...
Lugging his heavy cross, a convict was toiling up the steep street of Jerusalem that led to the hill of execution. He paused once, and would have rested against one of the houses. But the householder, standing in the doorway, told the convict to move on. He had seen plenty of such criminals on the way to crucifixion, and he did not think that they needed coddling. This one, though, turned and laid a curse on him: he was condemned to walk the earth through the centuries, yearning for death...